Officers cleared for using pepper spray on dancers

***Ynot Shane*** · 02-02-2012, 05:50 PM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah prosecutors have cleared police officers of any wrongdoing after they used pepper spray and batons on a group of Polynesian spectators performing a traditional war dance at a high school football game....

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Kil'jaeden · 02-02-2012, 07:16 PM

This is what I hate most about police. They get cleared for beating/severely harming people on accident, or just on suspicion, but there's a different rule for everyone else. You defend yourself, and they want to ask questions, about why you did what you did, why did you use X amount of force, why didn't you call the police, etc. But a cop can shoot someone 10 times for stumbling or spray and beat people that were dancing and be perfectly fine. Not only that, they will justify it and people will believe whatever they spout.

***CaptHayfever*** · 02-02-2012, 11:21 PM

You heard it here, folks: You can now be legally maced & beaten for doing exactly what you're expected to do, exactly where you're expected to be, just because the cop doesn't know about it.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

02-02-2012, 05:50 PM	#1
*Ynot Shane* Not Ready to Make Nice Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Flaflooga Gender: Posts: 132,163 Thanks: 46 Thanked 603 Times in 317 Posts	Officers cleared for using pepper spray on dancers SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah prosecutors have cleared police officers of any wrongdoing after they used pepper spray and batons on a group of Polynesian spectators performing a traditional war dance at a high school football game.... More... __________________ Remember that book store? Well, they became one of those books and coffee places, and now they're just coffee. It's like evolution, only without getting the better part.

02-02-2012, 07:16 PM	#2
Kil'jaeden Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: in your mind Gender: Posts: 2,132 Thanks: 21 Thanked 146 Times in 99 Posts	This is what I hate most about police. They get cleared for beating/severely harming people on accident, or just on suspicion, but there's a different rule for everyone else. You defend yourself, and they want to ask questions, about why you did what you did, why did you use X amount of force, why didn't you call the police, etc. But a cop can shoot someone 10 times for stumbling or spray and beat people that were dancing and be perfectly fine. Not only that, they will justify it and people will believe whatever they spout.

02-02-2012, 11:21 PM	#3
*CaptHayfever* Smash SuperMod Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: (n) - the place where I am Gender: Posts: 27,659 Thanks: 1,991 Thanked 2,486 Times in 1,513 Posts	You heard it here, folks: You can now be legally maced & beaten for doing exactly what you're expected to do, exactly where you're expected to be, just because the cop doesn't know about it. And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"